Tag: Poetry community
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Tearblots
Tears echo as she chokes Out her thoughts word by word Sadness in every pen-stroke I merely listen and quietly record Tear blots on our paper Her pain throbs in our arms I must write so others remember But will they be saved from harm?
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May You Ever (A Response to May You Never)
I wrote a response to Meredith Lewis’ prompt May you never which details how I stopped writing poetry for years. But how I returned can only be described as a subtle gentling. In every role, whether programmer or system manager or desktop support or service manager, I was always writing whether diaries for recollection and […]
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May You Never…
I am writing occasionally in response to Dangerous Meredith‘s Advent Creativity prompts. Her latest is titled, May You Never and this quote will suffice: “Today’s challenge is for you to cast your mind back and locate, in your memory, someone who unfairly or unhelpfully sneered at your efforts.“ I heard my daughter’s Elise’s giggle first. […]
Andrew James Whalan 